Last week, the governor announced that he would push a 2 percent raise for teachers—their first raise in five years—in exchange for tougher performance assessments. These pay hikes would amount to nearly $59 million. The plan also includes a $15 million grant program to reward exemplary teachers.

In another announcement last week, McDonnell proposed $5.8 million to give a pay raise to local prosecutors and fund vacant judgeships.

An extra $500 million is also expected to be allocated to transportation projects, although it is unclear what these projects will entail.

The Virginian-Pilot writes that some of the savings to offset these new expenditures will likely come from already recommended state agency spending cuts